DenlOcrafic 111enlber contro/lIlld lIlIt0l10fllOliS alltl indep endent cooperative principles lirerntile tlVO ICA designed principles, specifically developed to address tile governancerncooperative. According 10 'hese principles, Cooperatives are me/tiber-governed economicrnand .., 'ocia/ organizations. Cooperatives as denwcrafic and autonomous organizations (Irernexpecl(!(/Io ensure Inefllher-goveJ'I1(1l1ce in their association anti operatiol1 decision.rnDe,"pile their principles, nonetheless, ill Ethiopia, ill the previolls l'egiJnes, the associationrnlind husine.'I.' operation (~f cooperatives were not decided by th ei,. 11Ienlbers. Today, illrnCOlltrtlJ )1 to 'he previolls goVeJ'lU1Iellts, ill principle, cooperatives are recognized (IS 11IelllbergoverlledrndenlOcratic and lIutonomous organizations.rn//0 wever, sillce mell1b ers and tlIe populatioll at large was acc llst()fl1ed to governmentgoverlledrncooperatives in the past, lind the nwve towards nlelllber-goverlled cooperativesrnthat are capable to cOll1plete IIIld survive in the Iibel'{lted market is a recent phenomenon, itrn"eems that no considel'{lble effort has been directed to analyze the governance ofrncooperative,l' in tile face of the ji-ee market economy in Ethiopia. Ha ving this in mind, thisrnClIse .l'tU((1' i" conducted mainly with the objective of analyzing the go vema lice (!frncooperative.l' in Etlliopia lVitll a specific reference to Ankerka Vegetable Producers'rnPrim III)' Cooperative Society (A VPPCS) and Tigle Ferie MuflipulJ)(Jse Farmers' ServicernPrim III)' Cooperative Society (TFMFSPCS) in Soutll Wollo Administrative Zone (SWAZ),rnAmha .. a National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia. To this end, two specific researchrnquestiol1s lire jJosed. First, what are tlIe f acilitators of coop erative governance ill thern.,-tlldietl couperatives? Secolld, what are the cOllstraillts faced ill tlIe governallce of therncooperative.,-covered in the stul(J'?rnSelecting purposely A VPPCS and TFMFSPCS, the study adopted a case study method. Keyrnin/ill"lllant illterview, focus group discussion and observation method (J[ data collection arernemployed to gatller both prillllll)' and secondary data.rnThe findings of tile case study revealed that, lIlI10ng others, to realize member-govem edrncooperative,'; besides issuing supportive national legislation, still strong effort is expectedrnji'om the go venunent to prevellt local government illtervention lind to strength ell thernorganizational capacity of CPBs; the businesses (!f coopel'{ltives should be localized;rnlIIembers ,I'luJl/ld participate actively in the economic amI decision affairs; andrnrepresentatives and etnployees of cooperatives must be Il1etnbel'ship-accolilltable.rnRendering denullu/-oriented education alld training, setting 1I1enlher-sllllred and locally.rnpec~fic busine.H- tlcflvtftes, IIl1d Cooperation ltIllong coop eratives are the mainrnl'ecolJlJllendationslorwtlrded by the researcher to enSllre 111elnher-govel'l1ed cooperatives.